A Sailor's Odyssey: the autobiography of Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope.

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co, London, 1956, 5th impression.

Frontispiece portrait, maps and other illustrations.

Good hardback, name inside, minor foxing, marked, inside front board slight separation, small creases to corners, 715 pages with 16 Maps and 46 Photographs. Bumping, rubbing to boards. Some marks/smudges. No jacket. Pull out map in very good condition.

"FIVE STARS!! Arguably the greatest Naval commander since Lord Nelson. In spite of incredible odds Adm. Cunningham managed to hold the Mediterranean Sea and prevent it from becoming an Axis stronghold. Soundly defeating the Italian Fleet at the Battle of Matapan and bloodying their noses earlier in an attack on Taranto harbour that the Japanese would copy for their attack on Pearl Harbour. Adm. Cunningham went on to become First Sea Lord and oversaw the British Naval forces during the Normandy landings."

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